Improvement in paper boxes



UNITED STATES PATENT CFEIoE.

RICHARD H. FOSTER, 0F GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BoxEs.

` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 186,242, dated January 16, 1877 application tiled l l December 11, 1876.

To all whom 'it may concern:

-Be it known that I, RICHARD H. FOSTER, of Gloversville, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented a new and Y Improved Packin g-Box for Gauntlets, of which that class of gauntlets that are provided'with stiff wrists; and it consists of a square box provided with internal corner pieces or blocks, and with a central elevated table at the bottom of the box, and a removable piece that is received by notches in the inner corners -of the blocks, the object' being to provide a box in which gauntlets may be packed Without-in1 juring the stiff portion of the wrist.

1n the drawing, A A are packing-boxes contained by the case B. C C, &c., are blocks or corner-pieces placed in the corners of the boxes A A', which may be either rectangular in form, or may have a more acute internallyprojecting angle, as shown in Fig. l. D is a table, which occupies the space between the corners of the blocks C at the bottom of the box, and is heldin place by notches cut in the said blocks. This table projects but a small `distance above the bottom of the box, and is designed to receive the hand ofthe gauntlet, while the wrists are bent upward and placed between the blocks C.v The hands, which do not occupy the entire space between the table D and the cover ofthe box, are held in place by the rectangular card E, which is sprung into the notches a formed in the corners ot' the blocks C. The usual flaps or paper covers b are provided, which close over the space between the blocks C, under the cover F.

The box aud the corner-pieces may be made from pasteboard, wood, or other suitable material.

The advantage claimed for the invention is that gauntlets having stiff wrists may be packed in boxes of this description without injury to their form. y

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A packing-box for gauntlets, consisting of a box having internallyprojecting cornerpieces C, table D, and retaining-card E, substantially as herein shown and described.

RICHARD H. FOSTER.

Witnesses C. SEDGWICK, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

